Damon Getsman wrote:
> I am currently administering a Sun Ray cluster utilizing SRSS for a
> WAN with approximately 40 users. I hope you will forgive me for my
> neophyte level of knowledge on this setup. Their desktops are all
> GNOME 2.22, and the cluster is set up to allow their access with
> individual smart cards.
>
> I have had a problem described to me for a project by the
> administrator who is still training me on the admin of this system, as
> my previous knowledgebase is basically all networked linux PC
> administration. The problem is, as I have been told, an issue with
> the enlightened sound daemon when the users login multiple times at
> once (I'm not even sure how this is possible with smart card logins;
> I'm just running with what I've been told at this point). There are
> three servers which the user logs into from the various terminals.
> Evidently they are set up to round-robin the resources. Anyway, when
> a user is logged into all three machines and attempts another login,
> obviously it goes back to the first server in the list. When this
> happens, the /tmp/.esd socket and/or lockfiles prevent sound
> capability from the most recently authenticated terminal.
>
> I was wondering if this is a common setup and if there are any
> resources that I can use to try to find information on this setup to
> fix the issue. I could write a python script to be invoked at some
> point while gdm is starting up, but I'd like to find a fix that isn't
> as kludgy, if at all possible.
>
> Being as I'm going to be administering this system for some time in
> the future, I'm also interested in any resources you could point me at
> that would be relevant to this sort of setup. I haven't had much luck
> finding documentation on the sun website relevant as of yet.
>
> Thank you for your time and help.

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